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pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

I think it's the kids who are being messed with.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/26/i-was-doing-this-long-before-it-was-cool/

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Elememts_of_MA@kolektiva.social ("The Elements of Mutual Aid") wrote:

All four episodes of The Elements of Mutual Aid are now published on YouTube! Spanish subs are still rolling out, and all chapters will be available on PeerTube and the Internet Archive soon!
https://acab.link/s/ElementsOfMutualAidSeries

Check out our learning guide if you plan on hosting community screenings. It's full of useful terms and discussion prompts that could be useful for people new to these concepts.
https://theelementsofmutualaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/EMA-Learning-Guide-Revised.pdf

Thank you to everyone who's supported us and contributed to this project to make it possible! We've been overwhelmed by the amount of love that's been poured into this film, and we feel a deep sense of responsibility to do it justice by sharing these lessons far and wide.

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

RE: https://packmates.org/@noxypaws/116640053231590255

expand your cultural horizons, or revisit them

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noxypaws@packmates.org ("Noxy 🐾🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

If you've never seen the brilliance of Don Hertzfeldt, I implore you to watch this nine minute short film of his. He just released it on youtube in HD (1080p, audio's great too). It's just so, so good, so unhinged, uniquely hilarious stuff. So good that even if you haven't seen it, you may recognize things from it from others referencing it

https://youtu.be/UU%5Fm%5FNYXCek?si=3QdPVljaUbZz5eb9

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GandalfDG@indieweb.social ("Jack C.") wrote:

Working on some #poster designs to gather stories and information from workers who have lost jobs to #AI or are being forced to use it in the workplace. Incorporating some hauntingly beautiful art from @prahou who was helpful enough to point me at a few other pieces that might inspire more designs as well.

#Activism #AntiAI #TechWorkers #Solidarity #Design #Inkscape #GnuIMP #Typography

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

for computing partitions that are optimal - or, more often, suboptimal

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

sci-hub now has an AI chatbot.

oh well, since i don't actually know the name of what i need, let's ask

oh.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

Block Erection Technology

sky@schub.social ("Sky Schubert") wrote:

oh look, I published a thingie again!

https://overengineer.dev/blog/2026/05/26/how-to-rename-yourself-on-matrix/

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ariadne@treehouse.systems ("Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:") wrote:

you can tell this is AI slop, because there is not a single link to anything from that article to an original source confirming anything asserted in that article.

*always* check publications for citations back to original sources.

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ariadne@treehouse.systems ("Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:") wrote:

to be absolutely clear: alpine is *not* switching to systemd or implementing a 'systemd compatibility layer'.

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/alpine-linux-experiments-systemd-compatibility-while-keeping-its-lightweight-identity is literally AI slop

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acarsdrama@live.acarsdrama.com ("ACARS Drama") wrote:

Air to Ground Message:

HELLO AS WE ARE THE BEST. THE PAX HAVE NOCOMPLAINTS. WE KEPT THEM INFORMED REGULARLY

Area: Zurich, Switzerland
Type: Airbus A320
A: #a40485bebfa
F: #f401d6308e4

#acars #vdlm2

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Somebody’s running an ad campaign in Icelandic radio promoting free courses on how to use “AI”. The target audience seems to be retirees and older people.

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njr@mathstodon.xyz ("Nick Radcliffe") wrote:

@JulianOliver Maybe. But making your writing worse (or even different) because AI does something seems foolish to me.

Of course, em-dashes can be misused or overused, as can almost anything else. But they are not intrinsically bad and are sometimes essential. Many great writers use them frequently.

On the other hand, LLMs love emoji, and I wouldn’t discourage anyone from reducing their use.

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drayde@fosstodon.org ("Andreas Kahler") wrote:

@JulianOliver AI imposter syndrome

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jpoesen@social.jpoesen.com ("jpoesen | 🇪🇺 | 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@JulianOliver Slopschmerz, causing a lot of Kummerspeck.

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nico@ipv6.social ("Nico -telmich- Schottelius") wrote:

@JulianOliver Do you mean "Künstlicheintellgenzerzeugungsangst"?

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

I didn't know about systemd, thank you

Oh god, where do i find this rock, i want to live under it

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

equipping a database with the latest in fruit fly technology

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

Fruit flies use a modified version of Bloom filters to detect novelty of odors, with additional features including similarity of novel odor to that of previously experienced examples, and time elapsed since previous experience of the same odor.

fruit flies use bloom filters.

fruit flies use bloom filters 🤯

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theradr.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg") wrote:

I made this meme some years ago and it just popped up in my phone photo memories and… welp.

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The_Whore_of_Blahbylon ("The Whore of Blahbylon") wrote:

Accept reality for what it is.

#Billionaires #IncomeInequality

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siderea@universeodon.com ("Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis") wrote:

So there I was, putting together a grocery order on my phone, using the speech to text transcription function, to explain to the nice text box on the form that I would like in the eventuality of my choice of ice cream not being available, for them to substitute Häagen-Dazs brand coffee ice cream. Which is the only reason it was spelled correctly. I could never.

The form promptly threw an error message I have never seen before:

"We cannot guarantee that our store associates will understand foreign languages. Please use English."

It would not let me enter the contents of that field so long as the umlaut was there.

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

A portentous reunion

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/05/25/a-portentous-reunion/

EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

I normally only post full makeup photos here, but sometimes I clean up ok without it. Getting more comfortable running out to the store or socializing bare faced.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

There's a truism that any game developer sooner or later ends up writing their own memory allocator.

I wonder if the same is true for #nlp programming and writing your own domain specific stemmer. Because that's what I'm looking at now!

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right") wrote:

So google didn't manage to finish off RSS, but LLMs and cloudflare might.

Because I'm like this, I can probably figure out a way to hook a browser up and automate fetching the RSS feed through cloudflare, but... It's probably better to just let it go...

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jonafato ("Jon Banafato") wrote:

If you participated in PyCon US, please fill out the survey. It helps a lot. Remind your friends.

cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right") wrote:

I just realized an RSS feed I have hasn't updated since April. I went to double check the URL in case they moved it as people often do, but no, that was fine. And then I realized they've put their entire site behind some sort of cloudflare protection, probably because of all the aggressive LLM scraping (and they are a bunch of artists to boot), and this "protection" just so happens to also return a 403 to my feed reader. 😩